Irwick Pest Quotes & Sayings

With the development of industrial capitalism, a new and unanticipated system of injustice, it is libertarian socialism that has preserved and extended the radical humanist message of the Enlightenment and the classical liberal ideals that were perverted into an ideology to sustain the emerging social order. — Noam Chomsky

Maxims serve the wise;
folly enslaves fools. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Why doesn't Prin go and get her own goddamn blistering bloody shitty jelly doughnuts? — Margaret Laurence

The function of man is to live, not to exist. — Jack London

When I got old enough to date, I realized that Valentine's Day is just a commercial marketing scam to make men feel bad. So I let my boyfriends off the hook. — Evangeline Lilly

No particular thought can be mind's natural state, only silence. Not the idea of silence, but silence itself. When the mind is in its natural state, it reverts to silence spontaneously after every experience, or, rather, every experience happens against the background of silence. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

He replies (four minutes later):
Anyone who throws a glass of wine in someone's face has to expect to be talked about.
Shit.
I think about what to reply and (nine minutes later) settle on:
That was bar theatre. You wouldn't guess it, but everyone involved was an actor. Even the
wine was acting. — Gemma Burgess

Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils. — Edmund Burke

Safe isn't always better than sorry.
Sometimes you need sorry to appreciate the
safe. And sometimes safe is just plain boring. — Anna Banks

Change is one of the only constants in Buddhism; as meditation became the way I breathed in the days, this became apparent. — Nick Flynn

While the road of good intentions might end in hell, the people who tried to fill the potholes along the way deserved at least some credit. — Stephen King

For someone like me who's lived in the same place her whole life - I mean, I lived three blocks from where I was born, and I met my future husband in the eighth grade - there are always family stories and legends passed down. — Susan Straight

I'm not in the what-people-feel business. It is not my place to guess. — Bill Dedman

The ideal in Martial Arts is humanitarianism. Accomplishment uses diligence as a goal. — Yip Man

He didn't spend time on niceties like saying hello. He answered the phone with, "Have you changed your mind about Thor?" "Um ... no," I said, and he promptly hung — Kevin Hearne